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The MF Screen

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Music Finder's Search Screen

A "record" in the Music Finder database holds information about a song.  You can see the kind of information stored by examining the Music Finder Search screen. The PSR-2000/2100 screen is shown below as well as the Tyros screen. You can see that, although the screens look different graphically, all the options are identical.  When you select the SEARCH1 or SEARCH2 option (by pressing button [I] or [J]), the Music Finder Search screen appears.

You use this screen to select particular information about a song and then search the database to find all the songs that match the information you specify.  You can specify several conditions that the song data should meet by making several selections on this screen.  When you press button [8A] to select START SEARCH, the Music Finder searches all the records that meet your conditions and puts them in the SEARCH1 or SEARCH2 tabs depending on which search you selected.  For the examples below, we will assume you selected button [I] for SEARCH1.

Searching on Song Name

Button [A] selects the MUSIC field.  A record consists of several "fields" that hold the information in that record.  The MUSIC field is where the name of the song is stored. This is where the information shown in the first column, the MUSIC column, of the main Music Finder Screen comes from.  If you wanted to create a list of all the songs in the database that had the word "Night" in the song title, you would press button [A].  This brings up the character input screen and you would enter the letters for the word "Night".  (We have provided a separate lesson that explains how to use the Character Input Screen when naming a file.  The instructions are the same for any screen in which you have to enter text characters.)

If this is all you wanted to specify, you could press button [8A] to start the search.  The Music Finder would search all the song records and put all of those that met this condition, that is, they had the word "Night" somewhere in the song title.  These records would be shown under the SEARCH1 tab.  Case is ignored.  So, if you type "NIGHT" or "night" or "Night", the results are the same.  If you are using the original 450-record (corrected) database, the SEARCH1 tab will show 9 song titles.

A Hard Day's Night Can You Feel the Love Tonight Midnight in Moscow Night and Day Night Fever Silent Night Strangers in the Night Summer Nights Wonderful Tonight

If you're results don't match this, go back to the SEARCH1 screen. Notice in the screen above, that the BEAT is set to ANY, the SEARCH AREA is set to ALL, the TEMPO is anything between 5 beats and 500 beats and the GENRE is set to ANY.  If you happened to have any of these changed, or if you have any information in the KEYWORD or FILE fields, then your search would have been restricted by additional conditions.  You might also notice that in your song list displayed under the SEARCH1 tab, not all of the song title appears in the MUSIC column if it is a long title.  You will see "Can You Feel the Lo~" in the column, which are all the letters that fit in the width of the column display.  The database actually includes the longer song title.  The full title is searched in answering your query.  Notice also that your query on "night" found the word "night" as well as words that had "night" in any part of the word (Tonight, Midnight, Nights).

Keyword Searching

Button [B] allows you to search on "KEYWORD".  You don't see any "Keyword" on the main Music Finder screen.  However, if you were to Edit an individual record, you would see any information that is stored in this field.  Yamaha did store some information under keywords, but I am going to hold off the discussion on keywords until the next lesson when we talk about editing a record.

Searching on Style

Button [C] allows you to select a "FILE."  In the context of the Music Finder, the word "FILE" refers to a particular STYLE file and this field is required for any record in the database.  When you press button [C], the MUSIC FINDER STYLE FILE SELECT screen is shown.  It works like all of the file selection screens.  Suppose you wanted to find all the songs that used the BossaNova style.  With the MUSIC FINDER STYLE FILE SELECT screen showing, press [F] to select the Latin category, and then press [C] to select BossaNova.  You can now press [EXIT] to return to the search screen.

You could also have double-pressed [C] (that is, very quickly press the button [C] twice) which would (1) select BossaNova and (2) immediately take you back to the search screen.  You will see that the style name "BossaNova" is now showing in the FILE field. 

Now press the search button [8A] and see what you get. What's that?  There are NO RECORDS showing under the SEARCH1 tab?  Go back to the SEARCH1 query screen.  If you still have the word "Night" showing under the MUSIC field, that means you searched for all the songs that had the word "night" somewhere in the song title and used the BossaNova style.  There are no records that meet that particular condition.  But if you don't care about the song title -- you only want to search on the style -- then you need to clear out that MUSIC field so there is nothing showing there.  That's where the three buttons [F], [G], and [H] come in.  They are all marked CLEAR and they serve to clear the data in the MUSIC, KEYWORD, and FILE fields respectively.  Clear out the MUSIC field and try the search again.  You should come up with three song titles: Meditation, Summer Samba, and Wave.

Other Search Options

BEAT

I'm sure you're getting the hang of this now.  Suppose you wanted to find all the "waltzes" in the database.  The beat for a waltz is "3/4".  The various options for BEAT are shown on the screen.  Pressing the [D] button cycles through the options.  ANY, of course, would ignore this option.  Selecting "3/4" would find only songs that use a 3/4 beat.

SEARCH AREA

You would normally search the ALL page, which shows all the records in the database.  But you could search your Favorites or one of the Search tab pages.

TEMPO

Buttons [1] and [2] on the bottom of the screen allow you to specify a tempo range.  So, if you wanted a "slow" waltz, you might select "3/4" for BEAT and then set the upper end of the tempo to something like "100".  If you wanted a "fast" waltz, you could set the lower end of the tempo to, say, "140" and then perform the search.

GENRE

Here is another "field" that you do not see from the Main screen.  However, every song record can have a "Genre" associated with it. 

gen-re, n. 1) Type; class; variety.  2) A category of art distinguished by a definite style, form, or content.

Yamaha has already classified the records in the original set according to "Genre" and you can use the buttons [3], [4], or [5] to review the possible choices here.  Yamaha provides 32 "genres" to select from.  The various choices, and the number of songs that are classified according to that choice are shown in the table below.  You are not restricted to these choices.  You will see that, when you edit a record, you can create your own genres.

The categories listed under GENRE remind me of the expression"garbage in -- garbage out."  In other words, the quality of your search results depends entirely on the accuracy of the genre specifications for each song.  Yamaha's list, unfortunately, leaves a lot to be desired.  These categories are not mutually exclusive -- what is the difference between "Ballad" and "Pop Ballad"?  Couldn't something listed as "Oldies" also be a "BigBand" tune?  But you can not specify two genres for a particular song.  A genre should be defined clearly enough that a song would fit in one, and only one, of the choices available.  If, for example, the genre represented the decade the song was introduced, then the choices would be  20's, 30's, 40's, ..., 80's, and 90's.  A song would fit in only one of those categories and if you selected the "80's" you would get all the songs that were released in that decade.

It would take some tinkering to fix up this Genre field.  However, you could make up your own mind on what you wanted Genre to represent.  Maybe you only want to use a subset of the choices above.  And then you could edit the records to all conform to your definition.

The Keyword Field

But there is another field, which we skipped over above, that can be very useful in categorizing your song records.  That is the KEYWORD field.  Yamaha has also provided some data in the keyword field, but you can replace or add to that information.  And, you can specify multiple keywords for any song.  As mentioned above, I'll discuss the keyword field in more detail in the next lesson when we learn about editing records.  For now, though, you should be able to use the search criteria field to create all kinds of subsets of the main database.  Practice doing that and get comfortable creating a subset of data any time you want.